Recent content by 323Eng

Surprisingly lower cost than I thought. What we did last summer was just to boost the temp at the beginning of the season and then keep it warm at the end. It helps to have the cover, but to keep it at 80 deg F or above from Memorial day through mid Sept, it cost about $80 in gas. Well worth...

Yes, the pool is heated. We have natural gas to the house, so it wasn't that hard to add, and it gave me the excuse/opportunity to run gas to the shop as well.:thumbup: It's about as big as the kits come, and it really wasn't much more for a large pool than a small one. When the family...

The bottom of the pool got a layer of sand & cement mixture troweled on, about 2" deep. Then it has a vinyl liner snapped in around the edges. My grandparents had a pool build like this in the mid 60's, and it's still in decent shape, so hopefully this turns out good for the long haul.

After getting the first wall done, I was getting frustrated with the chaos of having all of my stuff piled into the middle of the space, so I threw together a simple, tough work bench out of scrap lumber and a cast-off solid core oak door from a school. Not fancy, but stable and solid. We'll...

There's still a lot of landscape work to be done around the pool, but while the cold weather is in town, I'm finally making progress on the shop again this week. The first step was to finish the ceiling framing to transfer any additional weight that the ceiling will add over to the 2 walls...

So it's been a long time since I made progress on the garage, but with good reason, I think. We had another project last year: It was a kit from poolwarehouse, and with a lot of help from my friends, and a couple of brothers-in-law that know how to use a excavator. It was a ton of...

As tends to happen to my projects, not much progress on the garage over the holidays. One reason is because I had to fix the Miata. The car has plenty of cosmetic issues, but I do like to keep it in good mechanical fettle so I can drive it without worrying. Well, a few weeks ago, without much...

Some good progress last weekend! My dad, a mechanic for close to 50 years, is one of those guys who can do anything. He was out from Connecticut for a couple of days and helped me install the door into the barn section: I'm itching to get the siding back on and cover that awful pink paint...

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SO I got a quote for lifting the slab with foam - $1,500 for setup and the first 100 lbs, then $13/lb for the rest of the foam used. Estimating it's going to take 150 lbs, so I'm looking at around $2,150 to do the job. I'm thinking I will just jackhammer the old out of there and replace the...

I would say it has settled about 3" at the farthest end, and it is stable now. Whatever I do I will make sure it is properly back filled so future settling will not be an issue. What is the max thickness recommended for self leveling concrete?

Someone suggested getting a quote from one of those mudjacking companies, so I have requested one. If I have it calculated right, it would be about $450 in concrete to pour a new slab, so I'll see how much cost difference there is to having it raised. I also got the windows framed in over the...

The other night I got one more wall section framed, and I framed a little wall above the existing loft area. The loft itself will be part of the barn section, for storing hay for the goats. The kittens don't seem to mind the noise I'm making. Anyone in the Akron, OH area looking for a free...

I had originally posted some of this in the Welcome section, and it looks like it's more appropriate here. A few months ago we moved into a new place here in Ohio that has a building out back that I want to turn into my version of a dream shop. The building is 24x48 enclosed with a 16x24...

I was beginning to suspect that I had put this in the wrong place, so thanks. I'll create a new thread there.